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by hapless 16y ago
So let me get this straight: Mixpanel is advising me that page views are dead, engagement is all that matters ... and their chosen medium for this message permits no measurement of engagement whatsoever. Their web2.0 metrics are superior
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by hapless 16y ago
The model 16 series were not really workstations for a single user. They were explicitly intended for multi-user, multi-terminal applications. They had practically no graphics capability. Apollo was arguably the first "Workstation" vendor
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by hapless 16y ago
The A3000-UX was too little, too late. By the time it came out, m68k UNIX workstations had been left in the dust by RISC. You could get a low-end SPARC for roughly the same price, and have 2x the CPU power. If m68k was enough power, you c
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by hapless 16y ago
Some versions Microsoft Outlook incorrectly quote bottom-posted e-mails, causing your reply to be lost in the line noise -- it's greyed out, like the quoted text above it. This bug caused me no end of problems until I found out about it, i
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by hapless 16y ago
There are a lot of regional carriers left. I believe MetroPCS, the carrier in the article, may be one of them, since I'd never heard of the firm. Edit: http://www.metropcs.com/coverage/ Their coverage maps indicate real coverage of a fe
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by hapless 16y ago
Seeing as it's nearly one-of-a-kind, that's going to be really hard to fence. If you have the kind of skills required to sell this stolen camera, you might as well have gone into enterprise sales or something, and avoided the whole "grand l
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by hapless 16y ago
I've seen prominently labeled tilt sensors in use on freight shipments of computer equipment. They're not electronic. Tiny (<1mm) beads and adhesive are ensconced in an oddly-shaped plastic bubble. If the freight pallet is tilted more
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by hapless 16y ago
Is there any reason that the web server can't set up an SSL reverse proxy to fetch the adsense ads ? (Obviously cookies would have to be passed-through...) It would cost you more bandwidth, but then there's no annoying warning message abou
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by hapless 16y ago
There are several MySQL forks, have been for years. Most notably: Drizzle, MariaDB, Percona MySQL. There are many others. I don't see anyone rushing to abandon mainline MySQL for the forks.
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by hapless 16y ago
You rely a lot on the skills section, and you have an HR person doing the initial filter. Your process is exactly what causes people to fill resumes with buzzwords. "I touched a prior version of fizzbuzz, once, at 3am" is still going to pu
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by hapless 16y ago
It's not beneficial to the applicant to be very specific about skills -- the applicant would much rather you were in the dark about it, and had to interview him to get a specific idea of his skillsets. In other words, the incentives just do
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by hapless 16y ago
This significantly increases my respect for Zed Shaw. Yes, he wrote an offensive post crying for blood, but after he had a chance to cool down, he used his own fame and audience to exhibit a well-reasoned response from someone who disagreed
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by hapless 16y ago
Hurd was never fully functional. It never worked well enough to have an opportunity to be rejected for being weird.
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by hapless 16y ago
What's impractical about it ? I'm very comfortable with separate identities per-site. If your site isn't worth a separate identity, why am I interacting with it in the first place?
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by hapless 16y ago
That's an equally terrible excuse. At the very least, you have to plan for the possibility that your health will force you into retirement. As you move into your 50s, your risk of catastrophic illness shoots upwards. That's not to say tha
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by hapless 16y ago
I find it really offensive that the Times describes 50-60 as a "vulnerable" time in these people's lives. That's the age of your peak prosperity, when you have the most assets to liquidate for here-and-now expenses. The centerpiece of
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by hapless 16y ago
The iPod Touch is successful specifically because it is a non-phone device that resembles a really hip phone. It appeals to many people who are not interested in paying for a high-end service plan. So here's the underlying question: Why is
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by hapless 16y ago
If you're generating new CAs in such volume that the (in)efficiency of a UNIX pipe becomes a problem, you should just stop right there. That should be a red flag.
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by hapless 16y ago
The answer is actually in the question. The questioner is accustomed to paying $10 for one gram. There was a time when the traditional "dime bag" was 1/10th ounce, or nearly three grams. The $10 price point has "stuck," but the grocery s
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by hapless 16y ago
By the time Pepsi came along, "Cola" was already a generic term. The guy who invented "Cola" drinks failed to trademark the name (in connection to drinks, as opposed to plants). He died in obscurity. Maybe if he'd sued Coke at its inceptio
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by hapless 16y ago
I switched to Dvorak about ten years ago. My experiences don't line up with a lot of the speculation I see in this thread. * Most speed gains come from hunt-and-peck QWERTY typists learning true touch typing for the first time. If your fi
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by hapless 16y ago
BlueLock vCloud Express offers 4- and 8-CPU VMs in a self-service "cloud," much like EC2. The big VMs are expensive, but cheaper than buying 8x "high CPU" amazon instances. Also, memory is not tied to CPU -- you can have an 8-way VM w/ 25
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by hapless 16y ago
But not everyone will be poor -- the rich will still be rich. Wage-earners who believed in social security and the stock market may be very surprised to find themselves in penury. People who lived very nice lives in middle age and did ever
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by hapless 16y ago
It's much, much faster than Cygwin. Yes, it comes with most of the common shells out of the box: bash, ksh, etc. Even sets up start menu shortcuts for each, to encourage you to dip your toe in the water. Most of the user-space tools are
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by hapless 16y ago
Incidentally, Microsoft abandoned MKS almost immediately. They bought Interix very soon after. Interix implemented UNIX system calls natively, so it always came with traditional, useful shells. It's now bundled into Windows as a free prod
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by hapless 16y ago
It's flash-based. I would have skipped the link if I had known. My corporate desktop does not include flash. Surely corporate users are part of the core audience for Gantt charts?
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by hapless 16y ago
Sexual love is a human need as fundamental as food and shelter. In America's individualist society, friendship is a "nice to have." Dating sites get over the hump of "oh my god this is creepy" because their users are desperate. It also doe
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by hapless 16y ago
I'm sure the "A Bit More" button does what every other crap toaster does when you depress the lever: takes your toast from "cool" to "warm," or from "warm" to "blasted in nuclear hellfire." I don't know what happened, but it's very difficu
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by hapless 16y ago
Peer review and publication are not what make science what it is. Positive psychology is not science. Insisting on a particular epistemology is not dogmatism.
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by hapless 16y ago
Eliminating negative thoughts is unlikely to make you happier. The world is a complicated place. The appropriate response to problems is sober assessment, not positivity. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/books/excerpt-bright-sided...

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